Enzo Cucchi

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Enzo Cucchi (born November 14, 1949 in Morro d'Alba , Province of Ancona ) is a contemporary Italian painter and object artist . Along with Sandro Chia , Horacio de Sosa Cordero , Francesco Clemente and Mimmo Paladino, he is one of the main representatives of the Italian transavant-garde .

The artist lives and works in Rome and Ancona .

life and work

Enzo Cucchi grew up with various relatives in the big city. As a teenager, he left school in 1965 and worked as an assistant for a book and picture restorer in Florence . This activity sparked his interest in art. He taught himself different, traditional painting techniques , influenced by the daily retouching trade . His first works were quick successes. He won numerous prizes. But the interest in painting soon waned again. Cucchi turned to neo-avant-garde poetry , which was just emerging in Italy . From 1966 to 1968 he worked as a land surveyor .

In the mid-1970s, Cucchi moved to Rome , where he began painting again. During this time he met his artist colleagues Sandro Chia and Francesco Clemente for the first time, who were pursuing a similar artistic direction based on poetry. In the exhibitions that followed, Cucchi mainly presented large-format mixed techniques in oil . The first solo exhibition followed in 1977 in Milan .

Cucchi works, the classic by their painting and their archaic -emotionale imagery the prevailing at that time, cool and rational post- minimalism ran counter altogether, were from the art critics , especially the Biennial organizer Achille Bonito Oliva , as a "new, over beyond the avant-garde style “Proclaimed and at the same time occupied with the neologism Transavanguardia created by Oliva . At the invitation of the 39th Biennale Curatorium, led by Olivas, Cucchi finally took part in the Aperto 80 in Venice in 1980 . In the period that followed, Cucchi experimented with the formats of his works and in some cases achieved narrow dimensions that dealt with the iconography of old scripts and incunabula . From 1982 onwards, Cucchi finally found plastic .

In the following years he worked at the theater on the design of numerous stage sets . For example, there were designs for the Rossini production at the Opera Festival in Pesaro (1982), for Penthesilea von Kleist (1986) or for Puccini's Tosca at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (1990). In the past few years, there has also been a closer collaboration with the designer Ettore Sottsass .

Exhibitions / solo and group exhibitions

literature

Movie

  • Between 2000 and 2007 the German director Georg Brintrup made the film "Enzo Cucchi". Production: Lichtspiel Entertainment, Director: Georg Brintrup

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Nemeczek: The image of art. A balance sheet for the end of the 20th century , art Magazin, Gruner and Jahr , Hamburg 1999, p. 45ff, ISBN 3-7701-5079-1
  2. ↑ archimagazine.com - Biography Enzo Cucchi, URL: http://www.archimagazine.com/bcucchi.htm (Italian)
  3. ↑ Enzo Cucchi (Italian)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.brintrup.com  
  4. ^ Georg Brintrup website of the director Georg Brintrup

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personal data
SURNAME Cucchi, Enzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter of the transavant-garde
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Morro d'Alba , Province of Ancona